#    GMail-Notifier - A cooler looking gmail notifier for Ubuntu
#    Copyright (C) 2009 Uday K Verma
#
#    This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
#    it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
#    the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
#    (at your option) any later version.
#
#    This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
#    but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
#    MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
#    GNU General Public License for more details.
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import os

def launch(cmd, args):
    """Executes an external command with given arguments."""
    if type(args) == type(''): args = [args]
    try: 
        os.spawnvp(os.P_NOWAIT, cmd, [cmd]+args) # XXX Trace errors *somehow*
        return 0
    except OSError:
        print 'Error launching', cmd, args
        
    return 1
        

def browser (url):
    launch ("x-www-browser", url)